Soyuz-U from Baikonur launched Cosmos 1679, a Yantar-4K2 (Kobalt) film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for the Soviet military, recovering camera film after a medium-duration LEO mission.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 416th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 29 August 1985, 11:33 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1985-078
- Launches in 1985
- 80th of 125
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